Awesome Dmitry! The iOS team is definitely looking forward to adopting the Mobile Content Service in future versions.
Thanks to the Android team and the Services team for helping blaze this trail.
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 5:16 PM, Dmitry Brant dbrant@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi everyone,
In the last few weeks, we've been rolling out the ability of our Android app to connect to the Mobile Content Service[0], built on RESTBase[1], for retrieving article content, and the rollout is now complete. Over the course of the next day or so, the app installed on your device should seamlessly switch over to using MCS instead of the MediaWiki (mobileview) API.[2]
While this change won't affect your day-to-day browsing, it does mean that several additional features that were dependent on the content service will now become enabled in the app! These include:
- *Definitions of words from Wiktionary*. Tap-and-hold any word in an
article to highlight it, then tap the "Define" button to see a popup definition of the highlighted word. (Note: this is currently enabled only for English Wikipedia articles)
- If an article has a recorded *audio pronunciation* of its title
included in it, the app will display an "audio" button next to the article title. Tap the button to play back the pronunciation.
- If an article has *geo coordinates* associated with it, the app will
display a "pin" button below the article title. Tapping this button will open the default maps app on your device, and navigate to the coordinates of the article.
Many thanks to the Services team for helping us reach this important milestone, and props to our own Bernd and Michael for their efforts to get this done. This will enable us to build future service-based features much more easily, and it's our hope that the content service will be adopted by many other consumers, not just the Android app.
[0] https://rest.wikimedia.org/en.wikipedia.org/v1/?doc#/Mobile [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RESTBase [2] This is done within the app itself, and does not require an update from the Play store.
Cheers,
-- Dmitry Brant Senior Software Engineer / Product Owner (Android) Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering
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On Apr 13, 2016 9:38 AM, "Joshua Minor" jminor@wikimedia.org wrote:
Awesome Dmitry! The iOS team is definitely looking forward to adopting
the Mobile Content Service in future versions.
Note I'd be happy to help with integrating support for audio pronunciations as well as general audio/video playback on iOS.
I've created an iOS library https://github.com/brion/OGVKit for playing back the Ogg and WebM formats we use for media; it needs a cleanup pass and to finish packaging in CocoaPods. (Already migrated it to use frameworks so it should be usable from Swift code as well as Obj-C.)
Let me know if you need some dedicated time from me on that and I'll block off some time in my calendar. :)
-- brion
Thanks to the Android team and the Services team for helping blaze this
trail.
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 5:16 PM, Dmitry Brant dbrant@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Hi everyone,
In the last few weeks, we've been rolling out the ability of our Android
app to connect to the Mobile Content Service[0], built on RESTBase[1], for retrieving article content, and the rollout is now complete. Over the course of the next day or so, the app installed on your device should seamlessly switch over to using MCS instead of the MediaWiki (mobileview) API.[2]
While this change won't affect your day-to-day browsing, it does mean
that several additional features that were dependent on the content service will now become enabled in the app! These include:
- Definitions of words from Wiktionary. Tap-and-hold any word in an
article to highlight it, then tap the "Define" button to see a popup definition of the highlighted word. (Note: this is currently enabled only for English Wikipedia articles)
- If an article has a recorded audio pronunciation of its title included
in it, the app will display an "audio" button next to the article title. Tap the button to play back the pronunciation.
- If an article has geo coordinates associated with it, the app will
display a "pin" button below the article title. Tapping this button will open the default maps app on your device, and navigate to the coordinates of the article.
Many thanks to the Services team for helping us reach this important
milestone, and props to our own Bernd and Michael for their efforts to get this done. This will enable us to build future service-based features much more easily, and it's our hope that the content service will be adopted by many other consumers, not just the Android app.
[0] https://rest.wikimedia.org/en.wikipedia.org/v1/?doc#/Mobile [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RESTBase [2] This is done within the app itself, and does not require an update
from the Play store.
Cheers,
-- Dmitry Brant Senior Software Engineer / Product Owner (Android) Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering
Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
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